Halloween cont...

Kiddie Halloween party Nico hosted at our house

I do not think he can get any cuter than this! I can guarantee he won't let me put him in a pumpkin next year!

Mommy carved a pumpkin with his name in it. In case you can't tell, we love our baby!!!!

Happy Halloween!

Oh, the things we make this baby do for a cute picture!

My little tree frog

Ribbit!

Tuckered out after a wedding in West Palm Beach. Everyone loved his tie!

Nico was the best baby ever on our trip to West Palm Beach. Everyone asked if he ever cries. We had a great weekend, we just wish we could have stayed longer!

Fall Fun

We went to The Morton Arboretum this weekend to take some fun fall pictures of Nico and us as a family. He was wearing the perfect fall outfit so he looked ADORABLE and people kept stopping us to look at our little "model"! We had a happy baby (like we always do!)and got some great pictures. Lou and I went to The Morton Arboretum last fall when I was pregnant and we couldn't wait to bring our baby here to take pictures...so that is what we did! It was a little chilly but Nico was a trooper. We LOVE our boy!!!!!!!!!

Could that face seriously get any cuter???????????

Nico is growing so fast. He is now army crawling and getting into everything. The baby proofing is definitely necessary now. He is getting ready to start crawling so it is fun to watch him start getting up on his hands and knees. He is a wiggle worm now and it is getting near impossible to change a diaper or get him dressed. Nico also has quite a little sense of humor...when we "bite" his fingers or toes he laughs at us...however this has backfired because he will take my finger and chomp down on it with those 2 sharp baby teeth of his and then laugh....I guess it is our fault! He is a very fun baby and we are really enjoying all of his new accomplishments and his little personality that is shining through!

Nico in his Office...he is very busy!

This is when he had just turned 6 months. He is a pro in there now.

7 months old!!

My little pumpkin in the pumpkin patch!

1st pony ride! He didn't care about the horse he just wanted to eat the saddle! He is so funny!

Nico and grandma at Uncle Tyler and Uncle Andy's Triathelon. Isn't that the cutest hat you have ever seen?

My matching boys! There was a big Northwestern game on so daddy and Nico got ready to watch the game together. He has officially said his 1st word...."dada!" Of course no one is more proud and excited about that than daddy. He also says "hi" or "hi dad" all of the time. He is so smart saying 2 word sentences already!!!! He does say it a lot but he does say it when he sees daddy too so I think he knows what he is saying but he doesn't always know when to say it. I still think he is a smarty pants though and am a proud mama.....and yes...we are still working on "mama!"

Nico taking a ride on Uncle Tyler's back. It is a rough life being a baby!

Nico's 1st meal!

6 Months Old!

Isn't this the cutest tush you have ever seen????????

My boy loves to be nakie! Look at that smile on his face! I think he is the only baby who LOVES having his diaper changed. Everytime I take his diaper off he laughs. He is so funny!

Lou, Nico and I went to Iowa City for Labor Day weekend to visit Auntie Lindsey and Uncle Andy. They bought a hiking backpack for baby Jack so we put Nico in there like a high chair while we ate dinner. He loved being a part of the dinner conversation.

He has not even ever had rice cereal yet but his first food was a carrot stick (he is very advanced...just kidding :) We rented a pontoon boat in Iowa City so we had some veggies and dip on board and Nico now has a second tooth coming in so he is chewing like crazy. I thought he would enjoy chewing on a carrot stick and I was right. He thought he was so cool eating real food. He only has 1/2 of a tooth right now and he was actually shaving off little pieces of carrot with it.

This is about the only time he loved his life jacket. The rest of the time he tolerated it but he was not thrilled with it. He couldn't get his hands in front of him to get toys or his pacifier in his mouth but he was a good little boater despite his frustrations. It was our last shot at something summery before fall kicks in. Next year he will be walking all over and climbing on the boat seats and Jack will be crawling around. I do not think the boat ride will be quite

Milestones!

Nico learned to roll over last week! It is so funny because he rolled over once on Wednesday, once on Thursday and about 40 times on Friday. I can't just set him anywhere and leave the room for a second, now he is just rolling all over the place and trying to scoot to things. I feel like this boy will be crawling in no time! I will try to post a video of it soon.

Also this morning he started to chew on my thumb and something scraped me. I looked in his mouth and there is a bottom tooth starting to poke through! I think he is going to look so cute with a few little teeth in there but I am really going to miss his big toothless smile :) Now that he is getting teeth he is going to have to adjust his kissing style a little for the sake of those on the receiving end of his kisses. He opens his mouth nice and wide and presses so hard onto your face that you have to start laughing. Then, often he ends up turning that kiss into a big love bite on your chin which will not feel to good with little teeth because it actually really hurts with no teeth! I have never seen a baby this small attack people daily with his kisses...so to all the little girls out there...beware of Nico Chiappetta!

Louie, Nico and I have had a great summer together. We love taking Nico places and doing things with him and it will only get more fun as Nico gets older and excited about this too! He has really been such a good baby and has such a little personality already. He may look a lot like me but I think he definately has Louie's personality.